151 cadets from the First Fleet took part in training to safely abandon an aircraft in flight.
Air Force Agency – AFA, by Lieutenant Nathalia Pandini
From March 11 to 24, the Air Force Academy (AFA), located in Pirassununga (SP), held the Emergency Jump Instruction (ISE) for 151 cadets from the First Fleet of the Aeronautics Cadet Corps (CCAER), Uiraçu Class, from the Aviator, Intendant and Infantry Officer Training Courses. After successfully completing the Instruction, the Cadets received their Parachuting Badge on Thursday (04/04), in a military ceremony presided over by the Commandant of the Academy, Air Brigadier Marcello Lobão Schiavo.
The activity is compulsory for all military personnel undergoing training at the Academy and aims to train the future officer for emergency evacuation situations from a military aircraft in flight safely.
During the week leading up to the jump, the cadets received theoretical and practical instruction, such as exercises on the procedures to be carried out inside and outside the aircraft, training in jumping techniques, exiting the aircraft and arriving on the ground. All the activities were conducted by soldiers from the Aerial Rescue Fleet (EAS) – PARA-SAR, paratroopers from the AFA, and coordinated by the Military Instruction Section of the CCAER.
The Commander of CCAER, Colonel Allan Domingues de Mendonça, highlighted the importance of the activity in the training of future officers. “To achieve this great goal, you have shown the courage to face the unknown, the effort to overcome your limitations and the esprit de corps to overcome the obstacles that do not resist the strength of the union of true brothers in uniform,” he said.
At the end of a week of intense training, the Cadets were able to make the jump from a C-105 Amazonas aircraft from the First Fleet of the Fifteenth Aviation Group (1º/15º GAV) – Onça Squadron – with the support of a C-95 Bandeirante aircraft from the Third Air Transport Squadron (3°ETA).
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